Dance

Swan Lake

Tchaikovsky

Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!

Director and choreographer Matthew Bourne, music Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker

Choreography by Peter Darrell, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Romeo and Juliet

Choreography and production Johan Kobborg, music Sergei Prokofiev

XENOS

Akram Khan

Ballet Icons Gala 2021

40 Years of Phoenix

Nutcracker!

Score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, adaptation by Matthew Bourne, Martin Dunca...

Outwitting the Devil

Direction and choreography Akram Khan, music Vincenzo Lamagna

The Royal Ballet in 2020

Royal Opera House

Connecting to Cohan: Lamentation / Tribute / Wind / Nympheas / Canciones Del Alma / Lloyd / Communion / Romany

Choreography Martha Graham, Robert Cohan, Yolanda Yorke-Edgell

Past Present: Lamentation / Sea of Troubles / Afternoon Conversation with Dancers / So It Is

Choreography Martha Graham, Kenneth MacMillan, Robert Cohan, Yolande Yorke-Ed...

Giselle

Choreography Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, music Adolphe...

Curated by Carlos Triple Bill: City of a Thousand Trades / Imminent / Chacona

Choreography Miguel Altunaga, Daniela Cardim, Goyo Montero / music Mathias Co...

Merlin

Drew McOnie

Political Mother Unplugged

Hofesh Shechter

Sadler’s Wells celebrates black dance

16 January 2022

Sadler’s Wells will celebrate black dance in 2022 in Well Seasoned, designed by Alistair Spalding and Breakin’ Convention's Jonzi D.

Icon dance and light at Rochester Castle

15 January 2022

Medway-based Icon Theatre's large-scale dance and light production If Not Now will see visuals by NOVAK projected onto Rochester Castle and a company of 175.

January to July at Dance City

14 January 2022

Newcastle’s Dance City has announced its performance programme through to July 2022.

MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet in cinemas

14 January 2022

This Valentine’s Day, Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet will be broadcast by The Royal Ballet to more than 900 cinemas across the world.

Opera inspires a dance tragedy

12 January 2022

DeNada Theatre present Mariposa—A Queer Tragedy inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at The Lowry in Salford.

Thick & Tight & Short & Sweet

12 January 2022

A world première of Thick & Tight’s modern variety show Short and Sweet comes to The Lowry in Salford.

Havana good time in Salford

12 January 2022

International ballet superstar Carlos Acosta delivers Cuban flair to The Lowry, Salford.

ENB Artistic Director Rojo to step down

12 January 2022

English National Ballet's Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer, Tamara Rojo, is to leave to take up the role of Artistic Director at San Francisco Ballet.

Motionhouse show heads for Hippodrome

5 January 2022

Motionhouse is to stage its first performances at the Hippodrome since 2018: Nobody which had its world première at London’s Peacock Theatre in September 2021.

Three of the best ballets

4 January 2022

The Russian State Ballet of Siberia brings Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker to Blackpool Grand this weekend.

Lowry goes kite flying

4 January 2022

A date in Salford opens the UK tour for a new dance / theatre show inspired by an Indian kite festival.

ROH opens five new streams

21 December 2021

Royal Opera House will add to its online offerings the ballets Sleeping Beauty, The Winter's Tale and Marguerite and Armand and the operas Fause and Nabucco.

Dance festival to return to Leicester in 2022

16 December 2021

Let’s Dance International Frontiers will return live in 2022 with a “plethora of exciting performances at Leicester’s Curve as well as workshops, talks and networking opportunities”.

NDT returns to UK for nine-venue tour

15 December 2021

Nederlands Dans Theater—NDT 2—will tour the UK with a triple bill by Marco Goecke, Hans van Manen and Johan Inger including two UK and Ireland premières.

Hungarian State Folk Ensemble presents Liszt Mosaics

15 December 2021

A celebration of Hungary’s music and dance history will feature the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexandre Da Costa, Saint Efrém Male Choir and Marcell Szabó at Sadler’s Wells.

BRB and RAD partner to bring professional dance into the classroom

13 December 2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Academy of Dance's new partnership will create stronger links to the professional world of ballet for RAD teachers and their students.

ENB celebrates a decade of Dance for Parkinson's

13 December 2021

English National Ballet's Dance for Parkinson's programme, providing dance classes for people with Parkinson’s, their family, friends and carers, has now been running for ten years.

First look at Rojo's ENB Raymonda

12 December 2021

For her debut in choreography and direction, Tamara Rojo has adapted Raymonda for English National Ballet at London Coliseum.

Dante on demand at ROH

8 December 2021

Wayne McGregor’s new work The Dante Project will be available to stream via the Royal Opera House's online service from 20 December.

Audio description for Acosta's 100% Cuban

8 December 2021

The 100% Cuban tour from Acosta Danza includes four audio-described performances for blind and visually-impaired theatre-goers in London, Salford, Hull and Plymouth from Sightlines Audio Description Services.

Night Tree Films go live online

8 December 2021

Second Hand Dance’s Night Tree Films, based on Eve Bunting’s book Night Tree created for children aged 3–7, are live on Sadler’s Wells digital stage.

More dates for Shechter's Double Murder

27 November 2021

Hofesh Shechter Company has announced further dates for Double Murder, presented as two distinctly contrasting pieces: Clowns and The Fix.

ROH welcomes NHS staff for Christmas treat

27 November 2021

The Royal Opera House is to welcome more than 1,800 NHS staff and their families to its 2021 Paul Hamlyn Christmas Treat.

One Dance and BBC Dance Passion live broadcasts

26 November 2021

One Dance UK and BBC Arts have announced further artists and locations for Dance Passion 2022, as part of a wider host of dance programming.

BRB tours Acosta's Don Quixote

21 November 2021

For spring 2022, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Director Carlos Acosta will revive Cervantes’ famous knight featuring music by Ludwig Minkus.

BalletBoyz returns to screen and stage

21 November 2021

BalletBoyz will return to live performance in March with Deluxe, but, ahead of that, this Christmas, its third feature film, Rumpelstilzchen, will have a cast including Jane Horrocks.

Beaford and Rural Touring Dance in LA film festival

16 November 2021

Burnout, exploring the impact the pandemic and forced isolation has had on young people’s mental health, was selected for the 2021 Los Angeles Dance Shorts Film Festival.

Nutcracker opens ROH cinema season

16 November 2021

The Royal Opera House will open its international Cinema Season with Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker.

Sadler’s Wells to open new venue in Stratford

12 November 2021

Sadler’s Wells East Hip Hop Theatre Academy and Choreographic School is due to open in its new venue in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2023.

ENB Philharmonic releases Raymonda music

9 November 2021

English National Ballet has released a single of music from the ballet Raymonda on streaming platforms ahead of a full album launch later this month.

ENB Pipeline Project promotes diversity

8 November 2021

English National Ballet’s new pipeline project, Ballet Futures, is a programme to encourage underrepresented groups.

Sweet success for Isaac

7 November 2021

From Wythenshawe to the candy kingdom of Sweetieland, a North West dancer is among the cast of Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker at The Lowry.

Exploring the climate crisis through dance

29 October 2021

North East contemporary dance company Eliot Smith Dance’s latest work explores the climate crisis through our connection with nature.

Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Watson retires after 27 years

28 October 2021

Edward Watson will make his final performance with The Royal Ballet on Saturday 30 October in Wayne McGregor’s new work, The Dante Project.

Ballet Icons return to Coliseum

24 October 2021

The annual Ballet Icons Gala, presented by Ensemble Productions, returns to the stage at the London Coliseum for one night only.

Sadler’s Wells dance on demand

23 October 2021

Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage will launch its Video on Demand platform with Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Curated by Carlos.

Virtual reality dance Facades tour

23 October 2021

New virtual reality dance experience Facades will première at Phoenix, Leicester in October before touring to Birmingham, Nottingham and London.

Aakash Odedra tour November to February

23 October 2021

Aakash Odedra Company will present Shiamak: Winter Funk at Harrow and Warwick, Rising at Birmingham and Brentford and a spring tour of Little Murmur.

Political Mother Unplugged

23 October 2021

Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother Unplugged is at HOME in Manchester.

BRB World Ballet Day programme

19 October 2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced its programme for this year’s #WorldBalletDay 2021 on 19 October.